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The Salajeet Collectors by Amanda Forrest

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This story starts and ends with a chicken. On a bright morning in a high valley of the Hindu Kush, the doomed bird lay pinned atop a low stone wall that had been built by local goat herders. One sharp birdie eye looked up into the cloudless sky, the heavens a pale blue, the air…

The Salajeet Collectors by Amanda Forrest

Amanda Forrest’s The Salajeet Collectors, an essay published in Volume 13 of The Climbing Zine about a life changing climbing trip to Pakistan.

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